Portable sanitary dinner-bucket



(Model.)

A. SIMON.

PORTABLEl SANITARY DINNER BUCKET.

Patented Nov. I, 1887. a

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PORTABLE SANITARY DINNER-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION -forming part of Letters Patent No. 372.337, dated November 1, 1887.

Application tiled May 27, 1887. Serial No. 239.598. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM SIMON, alcitizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, Hamilton county, State ollOhio, have invented a new and useful Portable Sanitary Dinner Bucket, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to such food-receptacles as by their compact and convenient construction are adapted to retain prepared food during its transl'iortation from the place of preparation to the place and time ot' its consumption.

The objects of my invention are to have a number of compartments, so as to be enabled to carry a variety of food, and at the same time have them so well and tightly closed and separated as to prevent any spilling or mixture of the edibles. I attain these objects in a constructionillustrated iu the accompanying drawings, in whieh- Figure 1 is an elevation of my din 'cerbucket. Fig. 2 is an elevation 'ci' one ol' the sections, parts of it being broken away so as to show the interior.

My dinner-bucket consists ol` several sections, the number ol' three, A, l, and (l, as shown, being preferred. Each section has at its topa male screw, Il, and at its bottom a female screw, b, except the lowest section, C, which, of course, has no l'cmale screw. One or all ot' the sections may again be divided into two compartments by the insertion ot' a loose dish, D, resting by ils rim d on the top edge of the male screw. Aller the dill'erent sections and dishes have been filled with food the sections are connected.l by screwing the corresponding screws together. Bottom E of each section keeps dish D in position and forms a cover to it, or when dish D is omitted it will form a cover to the next section below. The screw-connection prevents el'cctually any leaking to the outside or from one compartment to another.

The screw-thread consists in a spiral bead, of a convenient number of turns, pressed into the body of the sections.

I do not eonline myself to any particular size, number of sections, or kind of metal, nor to any particular way of construction as regards connection of bottom and sides. My aim is to use as few pieces and joints as possible. My preferred form at present is to make bottom E and female screw b in one piece, while the male screw a may form apart ot the side.

Cover F has a boss, f, which serves as a hold in unserewing the cover, and may at the same time be utilized for the retention ot' a cup, G.

In order to prevent any food from getting into space g, which would be dil'ticult to clean, I have provided a false bottom, L, closing up said space.

I am well aware that there are dinner-buckcts consisting ot sections placed vertically above each other, and therefore do not claim such an arrangement, broadly; but

WhatI do claim as new, and desire to cover by Letters Patent, is as follows:

A dinner pail consisting, essentially, ol' a plurality of separable sections, the base-see` tion having its mouth provided with a maleI screw, the removable dish l), having the annular ilange d, so as to be supported thereby on the threaded portion ol" the lsaid section, and the upper sections each having a female thread in their lower ends and a male thread in their upper ends, and removable llanged cups in each .respective section, substantially as speciled.

A liliy A I I A M SIMON.

Witnesses:

M. C. SIMON, `F. AUKENBA'UER. 

